Scope and Contents Contains: Colour photograph of Abubakar and the Sarduna, at Sharwood-Smith’s final departure from Kaduna railway station.Colour photograph, July 2002, of Alastair Trevor Clark and his wife, Hilary.Black and white photograph, circa 1975, of Queen Elizabeth II, with Alastair Trevor Clark.Negative of unidentified people.Copy of unidentified man in military uniform.Sepia photograph of an unidentified woman, probably the...

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The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.

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Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...

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Written while in Nigeria.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...

Scope and Contents 5 photographic slides, c.1950s-1960s, of Mr J. D. Brown, medical missionary in Calabar, 1957-1964.The images include a memorial for Mary Slessor, Free Church Missionary, in Use near Itu, where she spent the last months of her life, and her grave in Calabar. There is also an image of the Doctor`s house at the Mary Slessor Hospital in Itu. This was where Slessor had reportedly housed the twins she had rescued in the early part of the 20th century. Mr Brown worked as a medical...

Scope and Contents Sermons, 1876-1896 and undated, of Rev Robert Mitchell Beedie, missionary in Calabar, Nigeria.Robert Mitchell Beedie was born in 1841 in Aberdeenshire. A carpenter by trade in Scotland, Beedie joined the United Presbyterian mission, and entered Old Calabar in 1873 at Ikorofiong, the furthest up-river station of the mission. Beedie was ordained in 1878, and in 1884, was transferred to Duke Town on the banks of the Calabar river. He died in 1897.The papers consist of...

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